River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-11-24

who threatened them with death if theI
returned
IscENDIARIEs on the 18th burned tn,
barns OF the Burnett House at Lima, o.,
causing losses, including six horses, which
would aggrega c $4,000
NEAR Anon, Ill, ext nsIve forest fires were
raging on the 18th. and prairie fires were
causing great damage 20 farms in the vicin.
ity OF Yandalia
AT Memphis, Tenn. fire on the 18th
destroyed the buildings of the Merchants
Cotton Compress and Storage Company
with 10 200 bales of cotton and several
congresses Loss, $500. 600
TIE richest gold ledge ever found in this
country was discovered recently near Pres
colt, A. T. The ledge could be traced Tor
nearly two miles and the quartz rock taken
out was on the 18th said 10 average $780,
600 ton
TaE steamer Arizona valued at $780,
0O0 was burned TO the waters edge at
Marquette, Mich, on.the 18th Her crew
was saved
The mayor Of san Antonio, Tex. Byran
Callagan, was indicted on the 18th foI
throwing stale eggs at the speakers in a pro-
bibition meeting
At the Hec.a mine at Ishpeming, Mich on
tie 18th an Italian workman fen down the
shaft nine hundred feet and was dashed 10
pieces, and three men at the Anvil mine az
Besssmer, Mich. met the same fata
Two NEGROES were on the 18th given fifty
lashes on the bare back at lancaster, s C.,
for robbing a store
AZ Ludlow. Ky, the Cincinnati Southern
railway shops were destroyed by fire on the
18th Loss. Sl7J, coo.
FOREST Tres were raging on the 18th IN
the vicinity of Hope, Ark. and in the hills
and bottoms Of the Red and Sulphur rivers
Many farmhouse and out-buldings had
been destroyed, and numbers OF hogs and
cattle had been bun ned TO death At Little
Rock the smoke was almost suffOcating, and
unless rain speedily fell the losses through
out the State would be very heavy
MISS Frances F. WILLARD was reelected
president of the W. c T. L. at the National
convent on OF that order at Nashville.
Tenn, on the 18Th, and the old board was
hOnOred in like manner.
AT the door of theaocal department of the
Columbus (O.) Sac Journal n genuine dyna-
mite bomb was found on the 18th. 4
match was so arranged that If any one
stepped on it the fuse would take fire and
explode the dread implement
NEARLY complete returns of the vote on
the proposed dependent pension bill. re-
ceived at G. a. r. headquarters at Mime
apolis on the 18th, would indicate that the
veterans were practically unanimous in
favor OF the measure
KIIMAN C. JUSTICE suffered the extreme
penalty of the law at Hywassee, aa., on the
18th for the murder of James b Goddard.
REPORTS received at Fort Worth, Tex, on
the ; h said that the Indians were burning
the Oklahoma country It was believed to
be an uprising against the @boomers.
\ CONSOLIDATION of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad Company, the stTawn &
Indiana State Line railroad and the Chicago,
nv lie & ST Louis railroad was effected
on the 1Ssh under the name OF the former
company.
Four trainmen were killed on the Cairo &
Vincennes road on the 2OJh near Vienna, H.
At York, Neb.. seven stores, including the
Union and Masonic blocks, were burned on
the Goth loss, 100000
FIRE comp e5ely destroyed the mining
town az Granny, Newton County, Mo-, on
the I9-h Over one hundred houses were
burned.
The Jersey County du) poor house was
burned on the lash All the inmates es-
capped
TIE village Of Leconi Warren Counts,
IA, was almost wiped cut by fire on the
18th
The livery stable Of s D. Miller. In Chi
cagO, was consumed by FIRE on the IN,
death
Tbs arrest of gang of counterfeiters was
made on the 10Th, near Por. Huron, Mich.
two expensive plants for making bogus
silver dollars being found in their possession.
OVER portions Of Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky phenomenal darkness fell mt noon on
the l9th, the observation being denser than
q total eclipse.
SIX men were killed by the explosion of a
boiler on the 18Th in 4 saw-nill near Pres
colt, A. T.
Full returns received on the 19th Of the
recent election for members Of the Legis-
latUre in Virginia show that the complexion
of the new body VIII be as follows: SEN
aUe-Denocrnts, 26; Republicans, IA;
House-Democrats, 81; Republicans, 80;
Independent. !; Democratic majority on
Joint ballot "a
IN nineteen counties in Illinois hog chol-
era was reported on the 10 h to lie spread
ing and many animals had died
Is South nad West Kentucky forest fires
were on the 20,h causing great destruction.
At Fort Scott, Kan, IIs which started
on the I9th in the Goodiander DO r mill de-
stroved property valued Mt $3.50, 900.